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Article: LifeWay's True Love Waits Fosters Environment for Successful Abstinence Commitment.
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- March 12, 2004
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2004
A teenager's environment is a key factor in determining whether he or she will stay true to a pledge to abstain from sexual intercourse until marriage, a co-founder of a worldwide abstinence ministry said today.
"Everything in our culture is geared toward the sexual failure of our teenagers," said Jimmy Hester, co-founder of True Love Waits and director of youth publishing at LifeWay Christian Resources. True Love Waits is a LifeWay ministry.
Hester's comments came in the wake of a study financed in part by the National Institute of Child Health and ...